I got my IU Crimson Envelope today and it had a welcome letter, a brochure, and a flag. No mentions about any scholarship- does this mean I did not receive one?
Not sure…did you have stats that you think warrant a scholarship?
Mine was in packet, just not sure if that’s always the case. It was the second page behind the acceptance.
I have a 3.4 UW and a 3.7 Weighted GPA along with a 1550+ SAT, I expected to be competetive for a 11k scholarship let alone no scholarship at all. I am thinking of just calling up the scholarship office tomorrow.
It looks like students are notified about scholarships in the admission packet and/or acceptance email. Have you checked your spam folder? It wouldn’t hurt to call them.
The Deans Scholarship ALWAYS comes with the admission letter if the applicant gets the award. The SSA is a separate invitation to apply to other scholarships. One has nothing to do with the other.
@ucquestionta IU looks at a certain GPA and a certain ACT/SAT score in order to qualify for the Dean Scholarship. Your ACT is at the top of the range. Not sure what they are looking for as far as GPA.
Are you applying to Jacobs? They have separate scholarship consideration.
3.7 doesn’t even hit the cutoff for Kelley to even get in.
My son received a scholarship amount in the packet he received this weekend. As stated before, it was on the 2nd page. Give the stats mentioned above, I would expect you to receive something so you should follow up.
We also received no merit award in letter and aid package received three weeks after letter. I think the fact that my daughter applied after Nov 1 precluded her from receiving merit aid. We are oos so cost is very high. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you
IU can be a little frustrating on this IMO. First, they do say that scholarships are on an “as available” basis if you apply after November 1st. But with that given, they seem to be highly variable in how they reach decisions. My son maxed out the Dean’s scholarship, but was not even invited to fill out the SSA. We know other people with lower or comparable stats who were invited. IU could not provide any insights as to why. If you search threads, you will find other people mentioning this, even one with twins who ended up with one invited and the other not (and the one with lower stats was invited).
One thing we have learned is that IU focuses on your “highest GPA” for almost every decision. Meaning weighted. There are many schools that give an extra point for AP and many also give credit for honors classes. You just can’t compare across schools. Other Universities unweight and reweight with their own metrics. Even ones as big as IU, such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State. That may create other problems, but it does give you a different insight.
In my son’s school, an A in an AP class is a 4.0. Anything below an A gets you moved up one grade (i.e by a - or +). So an A- is a 4.0. A B+ is a 3.73. It is not possible to get above a 4.0 no matter what you do. My son has A’s in several AP classes, but also a few B+'s. He also has a bunch of honors courses with tougher grading where he ended up with a couple of B+'s. He has taken 7 AP tests with 4 and 5’s on all, so he is getting the material.
Less than 2% of the kids in each class graduate with a 4.0. But at some schools a large percentage of kids have over a 4.0 even with minimal AP classes. IU does not adjust for this. Check out the honors program. You have to hit the test cutoffs, but then it is GPA. They use weighted. I have been told the same for many of the scholarship screens etc. For Kelley, on our tour they said if you don’t get an extra point for AP, just put that in your petition and you will be set (my son made the Kelley cutoff anyway, so we did not test that).
For some things, IU also accepts class percentile. Our high school does not provide class rank or percentile due to it being very diverse in classes taken. Some kids graduate with 9 or 10 AP’s, others never take one and do one of our vocational education programs. I love that the school meets them all where they are at and get that they don’t want to rank. They do list all the kids with 4.0’s. Some are heavy AP kids, even taking college courses at our local school (which is higher ranked than IU in almost every category). Others have a 4.0 but have done general and vocational ed. All are proud of it, but it shows how hard it is to consider GPA without context.
Bottomline, it is really hard to figure out all of their choices. And GPA is a tough stat to compare out of context. If the OP is from a school like my son, a 3.7 in college prep is very impressive. We have had kids get into Ivy and top 25 schools with a 3.7. My son received higher merit offers at all other out of state schools/private than at Indiana. He still likes Indiana and the numbers are close enough that we told him not to worry about it if his final choice is IU. But I do think it is a problem for them.
Best of luck.